Walled garden at Holbrook House

The walled garden at Holbrook House dates to the late 18th or early 19th century. It is a crinkle-crankle design, oriented south-east to north-west on a gently sloping site.

The walls are primarily constructed of handmade red brick. A section of the south-west wall near the north end has been rebuilt using machine-made brick. The south-east and south-west crinkle-crankle walls are built in stretcher bond with chamfered brick coping. The north-east wall uses a two-stretcher, one-header bond, while the north-west wall uses a three-stretcher, one-header bond, both with saddleback coping.

The main entrance, aligned with the front door of Holbrook House, is on the south-east crinkle-crankle wall. It features ornate double wrought iron gates hung between brick gate piers topped with stone lion heads, flanked by short raking buttresses. Similar buttresses are along the inner face of this wall and taller, stepped buttresses support the south-west wall on its inner side. Shallow buttresses are located along the inner side of the north-west wall. The north-east wall shows pockmarks in the brick and remnants of whitewash, suggesting it once supported fruit trees.

Three additional entrances are located on the north-west side and at the north ends of the north-east and south-west walls. While the current plank and batten doors with strap hinges and latches are not original, their positions likely correspond to those shown on an 1882 map.

The path around the garden's perimeter is brick-paved in a basketweave pattern on the north-east side and uses crazy paving on the south-west side. Short concrete steps are at the southern end of the path, and while these materials are not original, the path’s layout matches that on the 1882 Ordnance Survey map. The garden is mainly lawned, with flower borders and some fruit bushes at the north end.